Black History Month was recognized nationally in 1976, when President Gerald Ford designated the month as a time for the ...

From delivering the paper to picking it up at the corner bodega to waging advocacy battles in its pages, readers from around the country recall their ties to The Jersey Journal.

Often called the "Father of Black History," Virginia native and scholar Carter G. Woodson started Negro History Week in ...

On the afternoon of February 1, 1960, four college freshmen walked up to the lunch counter of a Woolworth’s department store in Greensboro, North Carolina, and changed the course of history. Joseph ...

Black History Month, a celebration of Black history, culture and education, kicks off on Feb. 1. Historian and author Carter G. Woodson founded the first Negro History Week under the ...

When American Eagle Flight 5342 took off from Wichita, the Midwest city with a proud aviation history was glowing from a big ...

"By finding these names, we are releasing them to give back these enslaved people some of their dignity," said Sarah Bader-King, executive director of the John Wornall House Museum.

This weekend, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University will mark the 65 th Anniversary of the Woolworth Sit-Ins./ On February 1 st, 1960, four North Carolina A&T students started a ...

Feb. 1 will mark the 65th anniversary of when four North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University freshman staged ...

February is around the corner – an annual nationally-recognized reminder to explore and celebrate Black history. This month ...

Bennett Parten, a Royston native and assistant professor of history at Georgia Southern University, has done the research and concluded that Georgia was the site of the biggest liberation event in ...

People often don’t realize the revolutionary nature of the 13th Amendment, and conservatives in particular downplay its revolutionary nature. American historians have for a long time treated the ...